We Need a Public Health Revolution
The coronavirus crisis has demonstrated a need to rethink healthcare, breaking from outdated technocratic models and seeing the full social and political context behind public health.
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Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Labour Members Should Decide How Their Representatives Are Chosen
Fundamental changes to how members’ representatives are elected in the Labour Party should be made by conference – not behind closed doors in this week’s NEC meeting.
Ireland’s Fig Leaf
Four months after a historic general election saw Ireland’s right-wing duopoly defeated, the Green Party has decided to return them to office – on a programme that will do nothing to solve the country’s deep inequalities.
The Blair Show
Late ’90s and early 2000s reality TV in the UK was shaped by its interaction with a Blairite political project which demonised the working-class and cast social problems as individual failings.
How Labour Lost the Working-Class
New research suggests that, in the 2019 election, more low-income voters backed the Tories than Labour for the first time. The party’s decision to side with the establishment over Brexit was the final straw.
Learning the Wrong Lessons in Scotland
The Labour Together report provided all the evidence that the party needs to pursue a broad coalition in Scotland – before concluding that it should back a narrow unionist approach anyway.
A Self-Made Prophet
A new biography of Theodor Herzl tells the story of the thinker who laid the foundations of the first Jewish state, and of how his radicalism was mixed with a fateful support for colonialism.
The Yellow Man
Ten years after the first Coalition austerity budget, we recall the rise of Nick Clegg – British centrism’s last great hope – who appealed to the radical instincts of his supporters, only to march them to the right.
The Goldsmiths Wildcat Strike
While Goldsmiths markets itself on its woke credentials, the university is in the process of laying off hundreds of mostly BAME precarious staff after refusing their requests for furlough – but now, they’re fighting back.
How Keir Starmer Sabotaged Rebecca Long-Bailey
From her earliest days as shadow education secretary, Keir Starmer set about undermining Rebecca Long-Bailey – because her socialist politics and loyalty to trade unions were incompatible with his leadership.
The Minister for Property Developers
Robert Jenrick’s dodgy dealings with a billionaire Tory donor are just the tip of the iceberg – the whole planning system is rigged to favour private developers over the public good.
The Cholera Riots
Nearly two hundred years ago, shipping merchants ignored all health warnings and brought a cholera pandemic to Britain. Their act of greed triggered widespread social revolt.
Labour’s Soft Left Turn on Welfare
Fears that Labour is returning to hawkishness on welfare seem misplaced, but the party is making a pivot to the pandemic’s better-heeled ‘new’ unemployed – one which will do little to foster social solidarity.
We Can’t Let Corporations ‘Blackwash’ Capitalism
In recent weeks we have seen corporations embrace anti-racist rhetoric – but many continue to pay minority workers poverty wages and bust their unions. That’s a PR exercise, not fighting inequality.
New York’s Latest Left Breakthrough
Two years after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s breakthrough, the New York Democratic establishment suffered another shock last night as socialist Jamaal Bowman defeated incumbent Congressman Elliot Engel.
Labour Must Be a Party that Fights for Trans Rights
The Labour leadership’s refusal to get ‘drawn in’ to the debate over the Gender Recognition Act isn’t good enough – it’s time for the party to stand up for trans rights against the right-wing media backlash.
The Slaver’s Protectors
The toppling of the statue of Edward Colston has drawn attention to Bristol’s dirty secret – the continued influence and activities of elite business lobby, the Society of Merchant Venturers.
The Conquest of Bread
Food writing often strays into political causes, from chlorinated chicken to sustainability and animal welfare – but it rarely mentions the key ingredient to food production worldwide: the capitalist system.
Getting Away with War Crimes
For decades, former British soldiers with friends in high places ran a mercenary enterprise from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua – leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
Labour Must Stand with Trans People Against a New Section 28
Tory plans to scrap Gender Recognition Act reform have come alongside a demonisation campaign against trans people which threatens years of progress. Labour must fight back.